An urban artist who was mad about computers started invading public space in form of mosaic game characters in Paris. He opted for the old, traditional and weather resistant medium because the tiny durable tiles represent the video games' pixels next to the fact that it's simply ideal to use on outside walls.
Space Invader( 1969, FR) catalogues his multicoloured tiling works, provides invasion maps and books.
His gallery work- Invader 's being represented by the Jonathan Levine Gallery- is somewhat different.
He manipulates and arranges Rubik's cubes to form outstanding gallery pieces.
His Rubik's cubism series include interpretations of music album covers, portraits of the Mona Lisa and the Dalai Lama, ... . He uses the mechanical puzzles as a painter uses paint.
His Imatrix pieces show genius thinking from a man who's obsessed by the digital world. When a picture from the digitally encoded piece is being read with a QR code/data matrix application the text "This is an Invasion" appears.
The Frenchman was arrested in LA( April 2011) carrying tiles and a cement bucket.
He has declared he is currently planning a museum invasion.
Article written by Ann Timmermans
